Through hosting The Draymond Green Show on The Volume or his new role at Turner Sports, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has expanded his platform in the media. With that new platform, he is looking to change the way basketball is talked about.
Green was a guest on the Point Forward podcast with teammate Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner. When they got into Green in the media, he mentioned he views his role in a very significant way.
“People may think I am out of my mind, but the way I view me going to do this job is saving the industry. That’s how I view it because I think it is a dying industry. When you look at media as a whole, it is a dying industry because of guys like y’all two, guys like myself that number one, we are doing things on our own now. You need those people less and less to tell your story.
“Where I think they can stop themselves from dying is do the job the way the job should be done and stop chasing bullshit controversies. That’s the issue that I have with the media. The thing I have learned the most is it actually doesn’t have to be done that way.”
According to Draymond Green, there is enough interest in basketball as a sport that no one should have to talk about anything that happens to players off the court. He also thinks too many employers don’t know or care when hosts make their networks look foolish.
“The game of basketball is such a beautiful game. It’s such a detailed game that there’s always something to talk about that is very interesting to people if you understand the game,” Green said. “The problem we have is people don’t understand the game and they are talking about the game. Some of these employers need to be held accountable too. Stop putting people on there that can stir up the most controversy and let’s go back to teaching this beautiful game of basketball that we love.”
Draymond Green is taking a bold stand, but his position on the media isn’t entirely different from other former players across a variety of sports. If he is as much natural talent for television as so many in the media have said he does, he just may get the chance to prove he is right.
